blog.hootsuite With 313 million monthly active users, Twitter is a huge social media network offering plenty of potential for meaningful connection. But with more than 500 million Tweets sent every single day, it can be tricky to stay on top of the most relevant content, get your Tweets seen, and maximize the time you spend on your Twitter activities. Fortunately, Twitter offers in-depth capabilities that allow you to laser-target your efforts. We’ve dubbed these strategies Twitter hacks because the lesser-known features can seriously up your Twitter game… if you know how to find them. Table of contents Twitter Lists: Frequently Asked Questions and Strategies Liz Pullen is a sociologist/ethnographer who is working on a qualitative research project on online social communities with a focus on Twitter. She Tweets as @nwjerseyliz and blogs at Spiral Scratch. Over the past few days, the new Twitter Lists feature has opened up to all Twitter users and there has been a flurry of people trying them out and evaluating their pros and cons. So far, three uses have become most visible: 1) Lists as a way of organizing your followers, 2) Lists as a form of recommendation, and 3) Lists as a way of measuring influence. This article will answer the most common questions about Twitter Lists and talk about how they can be strategically employed by users to enhance the Twitter experience.
Managing Twitter Favorites [This is a guest post by Matt Thomas, a PhD Candidate in American Studies at the University of Iowa. You can follow him on Twitter: @mattthomas.] If you spend time browsing the Web, you undoubtedly come across stuff you don’t want to or simply can’t deal with right away. It could be an article you want to read, a website you want to explore, an audio clip you want to listen to, a video you want to watch, or a piece of software you want to try out. Tools like Instapaper and Read It Later make it easy to save these things for later. Sign In Don't have a Microsoft account? Sign up now Microsoft account What's this?
Atomic Learning: Staying Connected Training Skip to content Skip to navigation Skip to login Beginning of dialog content User Settings Sharing and watching videos on Twitter Sharing videos on Twitter There are three ways to share videos on Twitter: Record: You can record, edit and share videos from the Twitter app (Twitter for iPhone or Twitter for Android OS 4.1 and higher).Import: If you use the Twitter for iPhone or iPad app, you can import videos from your device.Upload: You can upload videos to twitter.com. Everything I Needed to Know I Learned from Twitter “Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.” - Confucius I admit that when I first signed up for Twitter in the spring of 2008, I didn’t really “get it”. It took months for me to “see the beauty”, even though the awesomeness of Twitter had been there all along. Twitter really came alive for me when I began to see it as a mirror for life. I realized that Twitter teaches us everything we’ll ever need to know in 5 simple tips:
Visualizing A Twitter Feed-based Digital Newspaper with Flipboard <div class="greet_block wpgb_cornered"><div class="greet_text"><div class="greet_image"><a href=" rel="nofollow"><img src=" alt="WP Greet Box icon"/></a></div>Hello there! If you are new here, you might want to <a href=" rel="nofollow"><strong>subscribe to the RSS feed</strong></a> for updates on this topic.<div style="clear:both"></div></div></div> Flipboard is currently one of my favorite iPad applications. It’s free, and represents the best example I’ve seen to date of what a customized “digital newspaper” should look and feel like on a tablet device.
Google's states of play Google is a Washington powerhouse that shapes federal law, rewards congressional allies and boasts a new 54,000-square-foot office, just down the road from the U.S. Capitol. But the Internet giant quietly has planted its political roots in places far beyond the Beltway — in state legislatures and city councils that have become hotbeds for tech policy fights. The company has hired an army of lobbyists from coast to coast as it seeks to protect its self-driving cars, computer-mounted glasses and other emerging technologies from new rules and restrictions, according to an analysis of state records. Atomic Learning: Twitter Training Skip to content Skip to navigation Skip to login Beginning of dialog content User Settings End of dialog content
New Twitter Study Highlights 9 Ways to Improve Tweet Response While Twitter’s latest earnings results failed to impress the market, there’s still a lot to like about the platform and the opportunities it provides. In particular, it’ll be interesting to see what Twitter’s able to do with its new deal with the NFL to broadcast live digital streams of games, which could be a major step forward for the micro-blog giant. But even without that, there’s still a lot of opportunities in tweets. Despite the downcast narrative, there are still more than 500 million tweets sent, per day, and a great many people use the platform to stay up to date with the latest news and happenings. And within that, there’s a lot of opportunity to locate and connect with relevant audiences to advertise your offerings. Here are their key findings.
5 Tips for a Twitter Makeover Caroline Chen | June 30, 2011 | 3 Comments inShare43 Five quick tips that can inspire you to reach full potential with each tweet. Not the Clinton and Stacy kind of makeover. Though a little Photoshop to that avatar wouldn't hurt. ÜberTwitter advanced Twitter client developed especially for BlackBerry devices Please select the correct download link below based on your BlackBerry OS version (found under Options->About). Download UberSocial version 1.433 (released January 17, 2014)